2005-2011
ANTARCTICA on-going
SOLO EXHIBITION:
JULY 2011 BAabylon Gallery, Ely, Cambs
DRAWN TO ANTARCTICA
ANTARCTICA ENCORE performance
February 2010
TEACHING RESOURCE
ICE
PACK CONTENT
ICE
PACK contains ideas suitable for 6-12 year old pupils
a. CD: 6 x Powerpoint presentations and 8
linked activities.
b. copy of DRAWN TO ANTARCTICA published by
Viriditas Press 2009
c. music CD: IMPROVISING ANTARCICA @ £12
A live recording of music spontaneously composed at an hour
long event at Kube, Poole, UK, in which musicians and a group
of artists, responded to images and photographs previously
created by me, all inspired by Antarctica. I use it in the
context of the large scale FREEZING FRIEZE practical activity.
d. POSTCARDS (samples in pack) extras on request.
ICE PACK
for use in schools: pack £40 incl p&p
PUBLICATION
DRAWN
TO ANTARCTICA
an 80 page book fully illustrated
account tracing my involvement with Antarctica.
I made it in order to bring together the whole Antarctic project
from its beginnings in 2004 through to 2009.
SELECTED
SCHOOL PROJECTS:
ANTARCTICA
DAYS WITH YOUNG PEOPLE
Year
6 students in Desmond Anderson School in Crawley (ICE WORLDS)
and Wallands School in Lewes (FREEZING FRIEZE), ANTARCTICA
DAY, St John's Bournemouth..See images below. It is good
to see my journey shared and developed. Please contact me
if you would like to discuss the possibility of a visit
to your school.
 
Freezing frieze- Wallands School
 
Ice Worlds- Desmond Anderson School
COLLABORATION
http://www.frozenorchestras.com
COLLABORATION
WITH MUSICIANS
Europa String
Choir.
Cathy Stevens and Udo Dzierzanowski.On-going collaboration:
Cathy, Udo
and Frances first met in 2002 at the first Zaum performance
at the Study Gallery, Poole and have since collaborated
on a regular basis as part of the ‘Safehouse’
improvisation collective & on projects including Improvising
Antarctica (2005), Brotherswater (Kube, Poole, 2009), with
the poet, Owen Davis (Kube, Poole, 2009), at the Unsafe
Festival (Lighthouse)2008/2009 and Bournemouth University
2010 (Antarctica Encore).
Member of SAFEHOUSE
(South Coast New Music Collective) as a maker of sounds
rather than as a maker of marks. Involvement with musicians
and with improvisation continues: see www.myspace.com/safehousepoole.
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view of studio work
in progress.
I
booked an Antarctica Day at Royal Geographical
Society and I handle Shackleton's Bible and leaf through
The South Polar Times. |
Turquoise berg.oil
on paper
The rapid gesture of monoprinting makes a satisfactory
method of trying out form and colour relationship
of iceberg to ocean.
INSIGHT:
June 2007 arriving at a clearer understanding
of why I desired to go to Antarctica rather than to
any other destination. I think it was a desire
to experience spaciousness and a longing to embrace
it some how in my own living. |
SPRING
2009
Continue
to develop studio work. During February snow fall,
worked outside on snow to make work while listening
to:
FREE IMPROVISATION ANTARCKTIS 1
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'The
impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor
from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an
encounter between painter and model- even if the model
is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles'.
John
Berger The Shape of a Pocket |
Glow Berg Glow
acrylic on board
click image to enlarge
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'The
modern illusion concerning painting...is that the
artist is a creator. Rather he is a receiver. What
seems like creation is the act of giving form to what
he has received'.
John Berger The
Shape of a Pocket
Perhaps the worst thing that could
happen to my creativity is that the blue-eyed, somewhat
serious little boy that is looking at the world in
wonder would die. I wish him a long life.
Lasse Kempas (contemporary Finnish artist)
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